Hacker News: collyw

New comment by collyw in "Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]"

collyw — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:45:59 +0000

I have seen youtube videos saying that if you put some tape over your licence plates the cameras won't read them. I think it was tape to make a skateboard grip better.

New comment by collyw in "The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025"

collyw — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:36:54 +0000

How do I vote Ursula out?

New comment by collyw in "The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025"

collyw — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:35:02 +0000

The AfD would support it? They seem like one of the more freedom focused parties in Germany.

New comment by collyw in "The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025"

collyw — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:30:06 +0000

Incredible how many politicians whatsapp messages disappeared after the so called pandemic.

New comment by collyw in "The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025"

collyw — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:29:01 +0000

They don't seem at all bothered about it in the UK, they try to cover it up.

New comment by collyw in "Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others"

collyw — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 13:03:47 +0000

Do you keep physically active? I am a couple of years older. The main thing I notice is that I want more sleep and have trouble getting it.And the grey hair.

New comment by collyw in "How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship"

collyw — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 13:01:40 +0000

Europe and the UK are going the wrong way.

New comment by collyw in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

collyw — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:57:54 +0000

My heart goes out to you.

New comment by collyw in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

collyw — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:27:31 +0000

Men can't get pregnant and I am not going to pretend that they can.

New comment by collyw in "Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful"

collyw — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:26:23 +0000

Fine. They are not actually RESTful. But does it actually matter?

New comment by collyw in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

collyw — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:59:08 +0000

People post plenty of videos of things happening. Often clipped so that context is removed (for example Manchester airport thugs getting kicked by police, without the preceding part where they attacked the police before that).

New comment by collyw in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

collyw — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:50:04 +0000

And Fauci. Why would he do that?

New comment by collyw in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

collyw — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:38:03 +0000

"literal Nazi" What utter nonsense.

New comment by collyw in "EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal"

collyw — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:25:39 +0000

Le Penn and Reform are slightly to the right of centre. Anyone that goes againt the replacement of the native populations of Europe is being smeared as far right.

New comment by collyw in "EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal"

collyw — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:23:55 +0000

Same in Germany. It's not the right that are talking of banning the most popular parties.

New comment by collyw in "Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?"

collyw — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:56:00 +0000

In my (limited) experience it's almost always a loose solder, usually when something like a headphone jack, or a power connected are being plugged in / pulled out on a regular basis.

New comment by collyw in "MonsterUI: Python library for building front end UIs quickly in FastHTML apps"

collyw — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:52:14 +0000

For some reason simplicity is out of fashion these days.

New comment by collyw in "EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal"

collyw — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:47:58 +0000

The far left seem to be a far greater danger at present. They are the ones pushing for all the authoritarianism.

New comment by collyw in "Oxfordshire clock still keeping village on time after 500 years"

collyw — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:35:45 +0000

Sundial on a building near my place still keeping the time as well. No idea how old it is.

New comment by collyw in "The Decline of Usability: Revisited (2023)"

collyw — Fri, 30 May 2025 14:19:58 +0000

I kind of assumed that the three lines were to represent a menu with three choices, but it's not at all obvious